This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Working Title: Man In The Iron Mask: From YKTTW
Comments from YKTTW:
- jason s. taylor: It was common among Byzantine and Moslem Princes to mutilate rivals until they were unacceptable candidates and then send them somewhere safe-monasteries were popular for this purpose to the Byzantines.
- I'd like to find some confirmation before including this.
- The Man In the Iron Mask gets a lot of different treatments. Richard Chamberlain starred in one where the older twin son had been spirited away, for leverage to make the younger one a puppet king; the younger one therefore ordered his brother imprisoned with the mask so no one could use it. The older one was rescued and managed to confuse the younger's flunkies so that his brother was sent off for the same fate.
I note that the younger brother was afraid that their being twins meant there might be some linkage, so that killing him would be dangerous.
Possible example:
- In Seven Days In May, Senator Clark is held incommunicado at Site Y.
- Later, Col. Henderson is held incommunicado as well, but he not a secret prisoner, making him not an example of this trope.
